sE ElectronicssE4400a
microphone
New retail price (MSRP)
$699
Used market: $545*
Specifications
0 of 9 values have a recorded source- Connectors
- XLR 3-Pin Male·
- Built-in converter
- no·
- Self-noise
- 13·
- Transducer
- Condenser True·
- Sensitivity
- -32·
- Output impedance
- 22·
- Phantom power required
- yes·
- Connection
- XLR-Only·
- Indexable Locales
- ·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Tonal profile
A four-pattern one-inch condenser with a hand-built gold-sputtered capsule and a very low 22-ohm output impedance - lower than anything else in this batch. Two pads and two low cuts.
Gain staging
-32 dBV/Pa is loud and 22 ohms drives long cable without complaint; 13 dB(A) is competent rather than remarkable. Note the site refuses plain automated requests - it needs a browser-like header set to answer at all.
What the datasheet actually says
Quoted verbatim from the manufacturer’s own page, with the date we checked it. We state what is printed, not what anyone intended by it.
«Sensitivity 25 mV / Pa (-32 dBV) / Equivalent noise level 13 dB(A)»
One sensitivity and one noise figure cover four switchable patterns (cardioid, hypercardioid, omni, figure-8), with no pattern named. The same three numbers - 25 mV/Pa (-32 dBV), 13 dB equivalent noise, 81 dB signal-to-noise - are also printed on sE's page for the sE8, a fixed-cardioid half-inch pencil with a different capsule, different body and different max SPL. On the sE8 page the noise row reads «13 dB» with no weighting; here it reads «13 dB(A)».
checked 8/6/2026* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~78% retained value).